Matt and Gabumon find themselves lost after traveling on a boat from the amusement park where they left T.K.

"Where are we Matt? Don't tell me we're lost again." Gabumon says.

"Okay I won't but just take a look up at that ridge over there." Matt says.

"Where? Hey other Digimon." Gabumon says seeing three Digimon on the ridge.

"I say we follow them wherever they're going and hope they're not lost too." Matt says and then he and Gabumon follow the three Digimon to a restaurant. "Huh, now that's weird. A restaurant in the middle of nowhere." He says.

"The perfect location for hungry Digimon." Gabumon says.

Inside the restaurant the three Digimon are ordering from a Digimon who's also a waiter.

"The usually waiter, a large snow cone." Frigimon orders.

"Same here." Kokatorimon says.

"Mm-hmm. And add fruit." Monzaemon agrees.

"Okay, okay, I got it, a number four and two specials." The waiter Digimon says writing it down.

"Meet Vegiemon – the maniacal manager of a rundown café. He puts a new spin on the term 'slave-driver'." Joe's over voice says.

"Bus boy! Go get some new customers!" Vegiemon yells throwing Gomamon out the front door as he lands at the bottom of the steps.

"Huh?" Matt says seeing Gomamon hit the ground.

"Gomamon. Are you okay?" Gabumon asks his friend.

"Gabumon and Matt! Is Joe ever going to be happy to see you two." Gomamon says.

A moment later Gomamon brings his two friends to Joe who was in the kitchen cooking food for some reason.

"Hey Matt." Joe says happy to see him and Gabumon.

"Hey Joe, where've you been and what are you doing here?" Matt asks.

"Well you see I umm…" Joe begins.

"You left, then Izzy and Tai wondered off, and so did Mimi, leaving me and T.K. alone." Matt tells him.

"I know. Well it started when we all went our separate ways to look for Kyle. I wasn't lost. I definitely knew where I wasn't, but I just didn't know exactly where I was…I think." Joe says as a flashback starts.

[Flashback]

Joe and Gomamon were walking through the desert when DemiDevimon appears in front of them.

You're lost aren't ya." DemiDevimon says.

"Ah! Why'd you sneak up on me like that? Who are you?" Joe asks.

"Just a friend. I thought you'd like to know I saw two other humans with a Agumon and a Tentomon nearby." DemiDevimon says.

"You say you saw my friends, Izzy and Tai, which way?" Joe asks.

"This way. But we've gotta hurry before we lose them." DemiDevimon says flying in a random direction he says he saw Izzy and Shiro.

"I was sure he was leading us the wrong way but who was I to question? It's not like I knew my way around. Eventually we ended up at this restaurant which at the time was good cause we were starving." Joe's over voice says.

"Boy I wish my mom cooked like that." Joe says with a full stomach.

"Delicious." Gomamon said with a full stomach as well.

"And now the bill." Vegiemon says.

"Oh sure. This should be enough." Joe says handing the Digimon Japanese yen.

"What are you, some kind of comedian pal?" Vegiemon asks angrily.

"Here you go Vegiemon." A Numemon says placing US dollars on the counter.

"Uh dollar bills?" Joe questions in a shocked voice.

"What did you expect?!" Vegiemon yells.

"Oh well I was um all I have are Digi-Dollars." Joe says.

"Some play money is all you have?!" Vegiemon questions.

There was a long awkward silence between the two.

"So…what I'm hearing is…you thought I actually let you eat without paying?!" Vegiemon yells.

[End Flashback]

"And now he's making you cook the food to pay him back." Matt saying coming to the conclusion himself.

"When I'm not doing dishes or scrubbing toilets." Joe says.

"Hey! What's going on here?! I'm not getting richer with you to stand here chit chatting! What?! Do you want me to say pretty please?! Dish out that stew!" Vegiemon shouts.

"Ah! Okay! Alright! Quit yelling or you're gonna make me spill it all over my pants." Joe says pouring the soup into a bowl.

"About time. Hey who are these jokers?" Vegiemon asks seeing Matt and Gabumon.

"We're friends of Joe and Gomamon." Matt says.

"Well whoopee doo and good for you." Vegiemon say and takes a bite out of the soup. "Ah! Disgusting! I can give that to any of my customers!" He says throwing the bowl onto one of the floor cabinets.

"Um…but, but I…" Joe stutters.

"Now you'll work an extra day for the ingredients you wasted!" Vegiemon yells.

"Another day." Joe says.

"One more day? On top of how long Joe?" matt questions.

"Well first, it was only suppose to be for three days but I kept on making mistakes and it got longer. Now I'm up to over six weeks." Joe says.

"And he still owes me for all the wasted food not to mention the broken dishes!" Vegiemon shouts but then the back door opens.

"What's all the commotion in here? The customers are complaining." A Digimon with an egg-like body and two small green like dinosaur legs.

'We didn't know it yet, but Digitamamon was an evil Digimon, Ultimate level and protected by his Digi-egg shell.' Matt's over voice says.

"Excuse me are you the restaurant owner? My friend's been working like crazy to pay off one lousy meal. Can't he go now?" He asks.

"Are you kidding me? This guy's not going anywhere, of course if you stay and work with him to pay off the debt." Digitamamon says.

"Who? Me?" Matt asks.

"If you won't help then just go away. You are no use to me." Digitamamon says walking up the stairs to the roof.

"I feel ill. I'm allergic to kitchen work." Joe says staring at the stove.

"What are you talking about?" Matt asks.

"Oh just never mind." Joe says sighing.

"Listen I've gotta go and find T.K. and Shiro but after I do we'll come back here and help you work off your debt, okay." Matt says.

"Really? You will?" Joe asks.

"That's what friends do Joe. When things are tough they help each other out." Matt says.

"I'll always remember this Matt." Joe says tearing up a little.

Meanwhile Digitamamon walks into his room to find DemiDevimon there.

"DemiDevimon? I didn't know you were coming." Digitamamon says.

DemiDevimon looks to his left to show Digitamamon a stack of money on the table.

"I take it you have another job you want me to do." Digitamamon says.

"The new boy…you mustn't let him leave here." DemiDevimon says.

As Matt and Gabumon make their way towards the boat to go find T.K. Digitamamon stops them.

"Where do you think you are going? You're not finished. I checked the schedule." Digitamamon says.

"Schedule?" Matt asks confused by what he meant.

"The work schedule! Now get inside and start cooking or your fired." Digitamamon says.

"I quit, how's that?" Matt asks.

"You can't quit! I say you stay!" Digitamamon shouts.

"Hey what's the big deal egg-head? I'm coming right back. Besides you've already got slave working in your kitchen." Matt says.

"Oh I see. So you don't care what happens to your friend while you're gone. Selfish aren't we." Digitamamon says.

"What are you talking about?" Matt asks.

"I'm just saying while your away there's no telling what might happen to your poor little friend. So many accidents could happen in the kitchen you know." Digitamamon says.

"Is that a threat?" Matt asks growling at the Ultimate level Digimon.

"Easy Matt. He's already cracked." Gabumon says trying to calm him down.

A moment later Matt is now in the kitchen cooking some food while Joe is doing the dishes.

"This waters hot. If I had some rubber gloves my fingers wouldn't get all wrinkled. So hey, just what are making over there? Is there some reason you're not talking to me? I mean I know you think I can be irritating but what gives? Matt?" Joe asks.

'So many accidents could happen in the kitchen. So many accidents.' Matt remembers what Digitamamon said to him before. 'I can't leave him.' He says in his head.

"Did you hear me? Earth to Matt. Come in Matt." Joe continues to try and get Matt's attention.

'Although he does talk a lot.' Matt says.

"Weren't you going to get T.K.? If you want to leave it's okay." Joe says.

"I decided not to go!" Matt yells.

"Hey wow. I'm sorry if I said something that made you mad." Joe apologizes.

'Man I can't believe what a jerk I'm being. Joe's just trying to be nice and I bite off his head.' Matt says in his head.

"Hey I'm sorry I didn't to yell at you okay. I guess I was just thinking about something else." He says.

"Oh yeah." Joe replies.

"Anyways I'm a really good cook just like Shiro. Everything will go a lot faster if we work together and we'll be out of here in now time." Matt says.

"Alright I guess that sounds like a plan." Joe says back.

"I make a mean PB&J you know." Gomamon says.

"And I'm an expert at boiling water." Gabumon adds.

"Alright then, we can do it." Joe says confidently.

'Hang on bros. I've gotta solve this first.' Matt says in his head.

Over many weeks, Joe causes more accidents.

"That'll cost you three more days!" Vegiemon yells after Joe drops the tray full of food. "Not again that'll cost you another week!" He shouts when Joe burns the food in the oven. "Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! That'll cost you ten more days!" He yells when Joe messes up the bill.

"Boy oh boy. I don't understand why I'm so accident prone. Okay so maybe balancing plates on a platter isn't one of my natural skills but now it seems worse than ever. Sorry Matt." Joe apologizes 'Look at me I'm falling apart and why am I talking to myself? Even worse why am I talking back? I've gotta do something to snap out of this.' He says in his head and then spills the food on the floor causing Matt to stare at him. "That did it. I snapped." He says as Matt looks at him and turns back around towards the stove.

"It's okay don't worry about it." Matt says causing Joe to sigh. 'Half of what I cook ends up on the floor and the other half is on his clothes. This job is giving me a killer headache. Tell me this is all just a bad dream.' He begs in his mind.

Meanwhile outside DemiDevimon is watching the two DigiDestined struggle to get the debt paid off.

'Everything's going perfectly. Those two will be slaving in that kitchen for life. Hm looks like another likely spot for another little accident.' DemiDevimon says in his head looking at the table full of potatoes.

"Bring me some potatoes will you Joe?" Matt asks.

"Alright coming right up." Joe says.

Meanwhile the one of the supports on the table was missing about to cause the table to fall.

'Those potatoes falling will cost them another months of work.' DemiDevimon says but doesn't see Sora placing the missing support back where it belongs.

"Think it'll work?" Biyomon asks.

"Quite Biyomon." Sora whispers not wanting to be seen.

DemiDevimon lands on a branch in a tree and waits for his plan to unfold.

"Here it goes. Huh?" He says confused at what he sees.

Joe grabs the potatoes and heads back inside.

"Nothing happened. But how…could that be? Grr looks like my dirty tricks will have to get even dirtier." DemiDevimon says.

Later that night after the restaurant had closed down Matt headed back to the boat and was now playing a song on his harmonica.

"That's a beautiful sound." DemiDevimon says to him.

"Huh? Where'd you come from?" Matt wonders.

"I was just passing by when I heard the sound of your music. You're very good. I'm a bat Digimon, we have good hearing and it sounds as if you're worried about something." DemiDevimon says.

"Huh? How could you tell?" Matt asks.

"A musical interment often reflects the feeling of the person who's playing it. Your music sounds sad so I figured you must be sad about something. I wonder if you're hurting yourself to help out a friend." DemiDevimon says.

"And how would you know?" Matt asks.

"Well it's obvious what's happening at the restaurant. I see what your friend is up to." DemiDevimon says.

"What are you talking about?" Matt asks.

"I think he's making all those mistakes on purpose." DemiDevimon lies.

"He can't be." Matt says.

"Just so you won't leave him there alone." DemiDevimon said.

"Not him. Joe just wouldn't do that to me." Matt says.

"Hm you're a nice guy but remember nice guys end up washing dishes for the rest of their lives." DemiDevimon says flying away.

"Joe…can't be or could it?" Matt wonders.

The next day the restaurant was pack with a bunch of Digimon.

"Listen I promise you I'll come right back you just have to let me go and get my little brother." Matt says to Digitamamon.

"Oh I can't do that." Digitamamon says.

"Please it's really important." Matt begs.

"No now get cooking before the customers start complaining." Digitamamon says.

Just then DemiDevimon runs into Joe's leg causing him to knock over a stack of plates.

"What?! Not more plates! That's another week for the both of you!" Digitamamon shouts.

"What are you talking about? I can't stay here another week. I've got places to go." Matt says.

"You'll stay alright and no tips." Digitamamon says.

"Oh Joe why are you doing this?" Matt asks.

"Huh? You think I'm doing this on purpose? You think I'm juggling plates while I was them? Something tripped me." Joe says.

"Stop making up excuses!" Matt yells.

"I'm not! You've gotta believe me Matt." Joe says.

Matt then storms off outside leaving Joe all alone in the kitchen.

Meanwhile Kyle's Digivice starts going off again.

"What's that sound?" T.K. asks.

"My Digivice is going off again." Kyle says.

"Then our friends are nearby. It did the same thing when we found T.K." Gaomon says.

"Maybe we'll find my brothers." T.K. hopes.

"And maybe some food." Kyle says.

Later the four end up at the restaurant and walk through the doors to find Gabumon and Gomamon working as waiters.

"Gomamon." Kyle says.

"And Gabumon." T.K. says next.

"T.K." Gomamon said.

"And Kyle." Gabumon says.

"If you're here then that must mean my brother's here too." T.K. says running up to Gabumon.

"And Joe's here too, right pal?" Kyle asks Gomamon.

"Yeah he's here but…" Gomamon trails off.

"What's wrong?" Kyle asks.

"Joe can tell you about it." Gomamon replies.

"Joe?" Kyle questions and the four walk into the kitchen.

"Kyle! I'm so glad to see you guys, but don't break anything." Joe tells them.

"Sure but what are you doing here?" Kyle asks.

"Hey Joe it's great to see ya but where Matt?" T.K. asks wondering where his brother are.

"Well Matt's around back. That I know for a fact." Joe tells T.K.

"Matt!" T.K. calls out as he runs outside.

"So what are you doing here?" Kyle asks but Joe doesn't reply.

Matt was staring up at the sky unaware of his surroundings.

"Hi ya Matt!" T.K. says appearing in front of his face.

"T.K.!" Matt says surprised to see him again.

"I thought I'd never see you again!" T.K. says hugging his big brother.

"Hey kid, you okay?" Matt asks.

"I'm great now that we're together again." T.K. says.

"So where's Kyle?" Matt asks.

"Hey Matt." Kyle says standing behind him.

"Alright! There you are." Matt says excited to see his friend.

"So seems like something weird's going on around here." Kyle says.

"Yeah you can say we got ourselves into some hot water." Matt jokes.

"Oh a cooking joke." Kyle says.

"I'm really sorry I didn't keep my promise to come back and get you T.K." Matt apologizes.

"That's alright. I'm sure you would have if you could have, Matt." T.K. says.

"Anyhow you're here and that's what counts." Matt says.

"No what counts is that we get out of this weirdo place and quick." Kyle says.

"What?! Run away?" Gabumon questions in shock.

"Of course run away. I don't see any guards around here." Kyle says.

"I don't want to." Matt suddenly says.

"Huh?" Kyle is shocked by this.

"But why not?" T.K. questions.

"I'll leave when I want to. Anyway I'm not going anywhere with Joe." Matt says.

"Huh?" Joe says in shock.

"He doesn't want to work together. He only cares about himself." Matt says hurting Joe's feelings.

"How dare you say that Matt! We're all friends here!" Kyle yells.

"Right what friends?! Oh you mean this guy who deliberately wrecks everything to keep me here cooking rice until I'm an old geezer?" Matt questions.

"Hey back off!" Kyle shouts.

"And what about you big shot?! The one who got us all separated in the first place!" Matt continues to yell.

"Matt stop yelling! Aren't you glad–" T.K. begins.

"Be quite T.K.!" Matt shouts at him shocking everyone.

"Just be quite and come with me. We're going to find our brother and find our own way home." He says but then Digitamamon walks up to them.

"Well, well, well, you weren't thinking of running away were you? That would make me very angry." Digitamamon says.

"Yes that would be a very bad idea." DemiDevimon says from a tree branch.

"Hey isn't that…" Joe begins.

"Him again." T.K. says.

"DemiDevimon!" Patamon finishes.

"It's the evil Digimon we met before." Gaomon says.

"You lied!" Matt yells.

"You lied to me about seeing Izzy and Tai to get me to come here. And you're the one who's wrecking everything!" Joe says angrily.

"So we're going to teach you a good lesson!" Kyle shouts.

"Wild Echo! Boom Bubble!" Gaomon and Patamon both attack DemiDevimon together but he dodges both attacks.

"Hey watch it! That's hot!" DemiDevimon says flying away.

"After him guys." Kyle orders as he, Gaomon, and Patamon chase after him leaving the other to deal with Digitamamon.

"How dishonest. Trying to leave without paying me." Digitamamon says.

"You're a thief! We've worked here long enough to pay for a trip to Hawaii!" Matt yells.

"Hawaii's not on the schedule but if you insist I'll send you to the moon!" Digitamamon shouts getting bigger and attacks them.

"You wanna leave? You'll have to beat me first!" He says from inside his shell.

"Gabumon digivolve to…Garurumon!" Garurumon shouts after digivolving.

"Howling Blaster!" He shouts firing blue flames from his snout.

"His shell! His shell is closed so the blast has no effect." Gomamon says.

"Very perceptive of you." Digitamamon says and then rams into Garurumon's chest knocking him onto his back.

"Garurumon!" Matt shouts to his injured Digimon.

"Matt!" T.K. calls out to him.

"Haha call off your beast!" Vegiemon says holding T.K. up by his leg.

"Matt! Help me!" T.K. shouts.

"How nice your little brother decided to hang around." Digitamamon says before ramming Garurumon into a stone wall.

"Matt! Somebody get me down!" T.K. yells.

"That's going too far! I've had it!" Joe says but doesn't see his Crest of Reliability glowing a little.

"Gomamon digivolve too…Ikkakumon!" Ikkakumon shouts digivolving to Champion level and pokes his horn at Vegiemon.

"Hey stop that fur ball or the kid's lunch meat!" Vegiemon says.

"Stop that!" Matt yells. Joe then climbs onto the roof and jumps down onto Vegiemon causing him to let go of T.K. but ends up getting caught instead.

"Joe! He's caught." T.K. says.

"Joe." Matt is confused as to why Joe did what he did.

"Matt, you were right. You always said we would all have to work together to get out of this mess. Now it looks like it's my turn." Joe says struggling to get free.

"Matt, we've gotta help them." T.K. says.

"Go on Ikkakumon, blast them now." Joe says as Ikkakumon tries to poke his horn at Digitamamon but he jumps out of the way.

"Tell your friend I'm a very short tempered Vegiemon." Vegiemon says as he tightens his grip on Joe.

"Do it Joe!" Matt says.

"No you've gotta attack while I keep him busy. Attack! I'm fine!" Joe says as Vegiemon's grip gets even tighter.

"Aw man, after I accused him and yelled at him, he still risked himself for T.K. Joe. No!" Matt yells as his Crest of Friendship starts to glow.

"I see you two don't know when to quit. I'll destroy you both with one shot. Nightmare Syndrome!" Digitamamon sends out a blast of dark energy that engulfs both of them and spits them back out a second later.

"No this is bad. They're too strong." T.K. says.

"We can't just give up! We've gotta beat them! But I can't beat them alone, I need Tai, T.K., Kyle, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, and Joe. Together we're strong. And we can beat anything. Garurumon!" Matt calls out to his Digimon and then his Digivice turns solid blue and shoots a beam through his tag causing the Crest of Friendship symbol to come out.

"Garurumon digivolve to…" Garurumon then stands upright and has an anthropomorphic build. He wears a belt across his waist that goes across his upper body and connects to his blue jeans. A 'glove' covers one arm and spiked brass knuckles are on one hand. He also wears earrings and bandages on various parts of his body. "…WereGarurumon!" He howls.

"WereGarurumon, Ultimate form of Gabumon, is a really fierce warrior with claws, strong kicks and jumps. He's extreme, but egg-head and his little bat buddy leave him no choice." Matt's over voice says. "Coming up, one scrambled egg." He says.

"You and your little doggy don't frighten me! Nightmare Syndrome!" Digitamamon sends another blast of dark energy at them but WereGarurumon stops it with his claws. "Impossible." He says.

"That was just the beginning, you little poacher." Matt says.

"Wolf Claw!" WereGarurumon says sending Digitamamon flying.

"They…beat…Digitamamon!" Vegiemon shouts in shock.

"Ti…ti…time for me to fly!" DemiDevimon says and takes off.

"Well he's gone." Kyle says.

"Vegiemon you better let go him!" Matt warns.

"Unless you wanna be salad." WereGarurumon says causing Vegiemon to set Joe down and release him from his grip then runs off.

"Yeah! Wow Matt that was so cool. You're an awesome big brother." T.K. says hugging Matt.

"I gotta hand it to ya Joe that was really brave." Kyle says.

"All I did was get grabbed. Kyle's the brave one." Joe says.

"By a vegetable." Gomamon says after de-digivolving.

"A cranky one." Tsunomon says after de-digivolving too causing everyone to laugh.

"Uh Joe…" Matt begins.

"Huh?" Joe says looking at Matt.

"I'm really proud of how you handled the situation." Matt says.

"Hey at my old school they voted me most likely to chicken out. I guess we showed them." Joe says.

"I also need to apologize." Matt says.

"Oh why Matt?" Joe asks.

"Because I never should have doubted you, Joe." Matt says but Joe just laughs it off like it never happened.

Meanwhile DemiDevimon was meeting his master somewhere far away from the DigiDestined.

"Myotismon, two of the humans got the Crest of Reliability to glow as well as the Crest of Friendship causing WereGarurumon to be born." DemiDevimon says to the shadow in the portal.

"What?!" The shadow shouts.

"I tried but…" DemiDevimon begins but bats start to attack him.

"Perhaps your brain is too small for this job." The shadow says.

"You rotten kids and your Digimon! You'll pay for this." DemiDevimon says.

Back with the four DigiDestined and their Digimon are walking along the lakeside and come to a fork in the road.

"So everything is linked. If we don't fix things here then our world will be in trouble too." Matt says after Kyle explains the situation.

Just then T.K.'s Digivice goes off.

"My Digivice is trying to tell me something." T.K. says and then Matt and Joe's go off as well.

"It seems every time this happens we find one of our finds." Kyle says.

"So there must be someone around here. But mine's pointing to the right." Joe says.

"Mine says someone's off this way. What's yours say T.K.?" Matt asks.

"Same direction. Which means two of our friends must be together." T.K. says.

"Well Izzy and Tai went off together when we all split up." Joe reminds everyone.

"Then that means…" Matt begins.

"I guess if we want to find them we'll have to split up again." Kyle says.

"Yeah, I think you're right. T.K. and I will head this way." Matt says.

"Cool. Joe and I will go the other way. Just so nobody gets lost let's meet at the foot of that mountain okay?" Kyle asks if everyone understood.

"Sounds like a plan." Matt says.

"Let's get going Tai." Joe says.

"Yeah." Kyle says back and they head down the right path with Gaomon and Gomamon following.